What Is Grossly Offensive

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The House of Lords decided to accept the appeal from the Director to decide whether or not the terms used by Collins were in fact “grossly offensive”. Lord Carswell concluded that “not every transmission of grossly offensive language is punishable, but only messages which, in their particular circumstances and context, are to be regarded in the wider society which the justices represent as ‘grossly offensive’.” This means that even though someone has used language that is grossly offensive, it still may not be enough to prosecute. The message depends on the context and circumstance in which they are said. From this, the House of Lords decided that the messages were in fact grossly offensive and found the defendant to be guilty of the crime,